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Connections UnitingCare is a community organisation with a long and proud history of supporting marginalised and disadvantaged children, young people and families.

We have a vision of children and young people living in safe and strong families within socially inclusive communities. We seek to create opportunities and build resilience to break the cycle of disadvantage and vulnerability through collaboration.

Our values of Respect, Equity, Responsiveness, Relationship and Learning affirm and reflect our commitment to the Purpose and Values of our founding body, the Uniting Church in Australia and the UnitingCare Victoria and Tasmania network. Our shared values underpin our work and shape the character of our unique relationship with our clients and other stakeholders and our response to social injustice.

Environment

Connections aims to reduce our impact on the environment. We have a keen interest in extending our caring role of people to include how we care for the environment. Our interest in the environment comes from an appreciation that environmental degradation has a disproportionate impact on those most disadvantaged.

Cultural Diversity

Connections has a strong commitment to develop culturally appropriate services. We are forging and building partnerships to ensure that we can be guided and can improve our understanding, responsiveness and work with culturally and linguistically diverse people including Aboriginal families and communities.

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Connections has zero tolerance towards child abuse and is committed to establishing and maintaining child safe and child friendly environments.

We are committed to inclusive practices and welcome people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community. We support the rights of our LGBTI clients to live free of prejudice and discrimination.

We acknowledge that we meet and work on land for which people of the Kulin Nations are the traditional owners and custodians. We remember and pay our respects to ancestors and warriors past and present.